I’ve written at length and in numerous publications about the evil ways the other, lesser baseball franchise in this town operates, so just for today we’ll let revisionist history and consumer fraud alone.

I mean, it would just be too easy to say throw about phrases like “conflict of interest” and “misrepresentation” instead of addressing the Northsiders’ surprisingly well-rounded offensive attack. We could make jokes about Fonzie as the greatest designated hitter in National League history, but we won’t. That would just be petty, and this is no time for pettiness.

One of the best and worst things about following a baseball season on a daily basis is the strange significance tiny periods of momentum or freefall take on, as though a team were destined to either run the table or finish out 0-for-the-season by virtue of winning or losing a few. One weekend the season’s over because the Good Guys don’t bother to show up, the next they’re turning the tide by stomping on a surging Dodgers team, lest anyone on either side of town ignore the facts that the Twins have stopped losing, the Tigers may actually be playing up to potential, and neither the Cardinals nor Brewers are out of it even though every sportswriter in this town would have you believe the season was over and the Cubs were already parading down Michigan Avenue.

In the decade of interleague play, not a season has passed where either Chicago team went 6-0 against the other, nor has any season featured two home or road sweeps. The closest to any of those happening was 2007, when the Good Guys went 1-5 against the Small Bears, but if memory serves the Sox went 1-5 against pretty much every team in the majors last year. So here we are, looking for. . . what, exactly? The Cubs and Sox are not especially worried about the Sox and Cubs right now, or at least they shouldn’t be when each team has its share of struggles and injuries and surging divisional rivals to worry about. And yet, the big news around town is that Sox personnel, when asked about the Cubs, give an answer about the Cubs:

”We’re not against the Cubs; we’re not against their organization; we’re not against their fans. We just say what we have to say, and I don’t see why that’s made into a big deal.”

Wow, a public figure answering media inquiries. What were the odds?

And they wonder why people make fun of the Midwestern sports media.